Child of Illusion

"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Our spying government

CNN has published a summary of Time Magazine's cover story. It's entitled, "Inside Bush's secret spy net" . Here'...

Saturday, May 13, 2006

McCain sells out

Well, you know by now that McCain gave the commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University today, don't you? Here are a c...

Friday, May 12, 2006

NSA spying

Today's CNN Quick Vote: Does it bother you if the U.S. government collects data on your phone calls? Yes 76% No 24%

Friday cat blogging!

Here's Henry on top of a suitcase that's on the top shelf of my utility room. He loves getting up there! Photo by Ellie Finlay

The problem with the vote

Yes, it's Diebold again. This is what depresses me most about the current situation. The voting machines are run by Republicans and are ...

Courtesy of AMERICAblog .

I wish the fundamentalists would heed this counsel: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am...

29%

Well, well, well. He's broken 30. This is a Harris poll reported by the Wall Street Journal : President Bush’s job-approval rating has f...

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Domestic spying

Here's the latest CNN Quick Vote: How does the report that the NSA is building a database of Americans' phone calls make you feel? ...

Simply outrageous

All right. Read this: WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the ...

The Madness of George W. Bush

From an article entitled "The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis" : With Bush as president it’s a...

Creating insurgents

The Los Angeles Times has an article entitled, "Aiming for a More Subtle Fighting Force" that talks about Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarell...

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Our sword of Damocles

How easily we forget the warnings: Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitab...

What used to be

This is from a comment found on Smirking Chimp . It's good: There was a time not so long ago when what distinguished liberals from conse...

Our health

Here's another article that exposes how poor our health is when compared with another developed country - in this case, Great Britain. T...

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Military solution?

Good point: There's no conventional military solution to terrorism. If there were Israel would be the safest country in the world. - Br...

Infant mortality

Maybe you knew this, maybe you didn't. But we all need to know that, as CNN reports, the U.S. has the second worst newborn death rate in...

Monday, May 08, 2006

31%

Bush's numbers just keep going down. Look at this: WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TOD...

Christian fascism

I want to beg you to go over to Theocracy Watch and read an article by Chris Hedges entitled, "The Christian Right and the Rise of Ame...

Sunday, May 07, 2006

What's wrong with Hillary

I want to recomend an interesting analysis written by prominent blogger Markos Moulitsas (of Daily Kos ) about the political future (and pas...

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